Olive Seedlings - שתילי זיתים

Parhas Devarim  begins with the first of Moses' parting addresses to the Jewish people, in which he reviews their history and rebukes t...

The second chapter of Parshas Bamidbar  discusses the division of the Jewish population in the wilderness into four camps, each containing ...

This is a video of a presentation I made a few years ago to middle school students at an Orthodox Jewish day school discussing how to think ...

Parshas Bo  tells us of the final three of the ten plagues that God inflicted upon the Egyptians before the exodus of the Jewish people fro...

In Parshas Shemos  the Torah tells us the story of the birth of Moses, the savior of the Jewish people; the man who would lead them out of ...

In Parshas Vayigash we read of the meeting, after a separation of many years, between Joseph and his father Jacob. The Torah states ( Gene...

At the end of last week's parsha , after Joseph intepreted the dream of Pharaoh's wine steward and told him that he would be freed ...

In Parshas Vayishlach we read of Jacob's nighttime struggle with a mysterious antagonist who attacked him and struggled with him until...

Rashi - Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki (Traditional depiction) In his opening comment on Genesis 1:1, Rashi (R’ Shlomo Yitzchaki, d.1105) cites...

At the end of Parshas Pinchas , we read of the various communal offerings made in the Temple on the mo'adim  - the special "appoint...

Recently, one of my chavrusos  raised a question that seemed like a really difficult problem. Towards the end of Deuteronomy (31:2, 34:7) t...

In Parshas Shelach we learn of the incident of the meraglim  - spies - in which the spies sent to investigate the land of Israel returned ...

At the end of  Parshas Behaaloscha  (Numbers 12) we read of the incident where Miriam and Aaron, the elder siblings of Moses, speak critica...

In Parshas Bamidbar we read of how God chose the tribe of Levi to be His, to a degree above and beyond the rest of the Jewish people. Orig...

On the festival of Shavuos we celebrate the event of Matan Torah  - the Giving of the Torah at Mt. Sinai. This was the foundational event o...